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Black Swan and the female-mission death myth

example · film: Black Swan · retold in 3 talks

Žižek argues the film revives the reactionary myth that a woman who fully identifies with her vocation must die, whereas men are permitted to pursue their mission, citing parallels in Hoffmann's Tales, Red Shoes, and Kieślowski's Double Life of Véronique.

As told 2

“This ultra-male-chauvinist myth that while a man can be a king… a woman has to make a choice. If you identify too much with your mission, it means self-destruction, death.”
18:53 Vote: For Hegel2011-11-24 · 1:26:05
“a woman cannot do it, a woman have to choose. Either your public mission... or your private life”

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18:53 Vote: For Hegel2011-11-24 · 1:26:05
Žižek argues the film revives the reactionary myth that a woman who fully identifies with her vocation must die, whereas men are permitted to pursue their mission, citing parallels in Hoffmann's Tales, Red Shoes, and Kieślowski's Double Life of Véronique., illustrating sexuality-gender,symbolic identity,ideology
Žižek argues The Black Swan repeats the Hoffmann-to-Kieślowski myth that a woman who fully identifies with her public mission will self-destruct, while a man can combine mission and private life. He traces it from Hoffmann's Tales to Kieślowski's Double Life of Véronique., illustrating reactive violence,gender ideology,ideology in cinema